Allysa is a Research Fellow in AI Trust and Security whose research sits at the intersections of technology, extremism, and online harms. Her existing work has explored the role manosphere-affiliated communities play in (re)producing male supremacism and misogynist extremism in online environments. Her doctoral research traced the narratives present in the stories posted to several high-profile incel forums, with the aim of uncovering how these stories help legitimise instances of identity-based harm and provide additional knowledge about the pathways into and out of inceldom. Her research has been featured in GNET Insights, CREST Security Reviews, Tech Against Terrorism, and the International Risk Podcast. A critical review of incel-focused research from her doctoral work was recently published in Crime, Media, Culture (2024), with additional publications forthcoming in a special issue of Critical Discourse Studies (2025), the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence (2025), Researching Hate (2026), and the Routledge Companion to Media, Sex, and Sexuality (2027).

Research Networks and Peer Review Work

Allysa is a Fellow at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. She's also a current member of the Democracy & Trust and Digital Tech & Crime Clusters at the Centre for Digital Trust and Society (University of Manchester), the Reactionary Politics Research Network (University of Bath), the Terrorism and Political Violence Network (University of St. Andrews), the Conceptualising, Understanding, and Preventing Mixed Forms of Extremism (CUPME) Network (University of Liverpool), the AHRC Rethinking Research Ethics Network (University of Westminster), the VOX-Pol Next Generation Network (Swansea University), and the Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication in Peacebuilding (University of Sheffield). She is also a peer-reviewer of original research articles and methodological contributions for various journals, including:

• Crime, Media, Culture
• Deviant Behaviour
• Men & Masculinities
• Social Media + Society
• Women's Studies in Communication
• Journal of Gender Studies
• Journal of European Politics and Gender

Allysa's research interests centre on the complex interplays between technology, harm, and violence, with a specific focus on male supremacist and extremist groups operating in the online sphere, identity-based harm, and gender-based violence. Alongside this, she's interested in ethical approaches to conducting research in public-facing online spaces, and adopts a reflexive intersectional feminist praxis in her work. 

Allysa has demonstrated teaching expertise in areas related to terrorism and extremism, security studies, and behavioural research methods. She is Course Unit Director for the Core Issues in Digital Trust and Security Module on the MSc in Digital Trust, Security, and Society. She has previously taught undergraduates on the Trust and Security in a Digital World course offered by Manchester's University College for Interdisciplinary Learning (UCIL), and postgraduates on the MSc in Security and Resilience at the Institute for Security Science and Technology (ISST) at Imperial College London.

Allysa currently supervises MSc dissertations at Imperial College, with current and past projects including: 

• Generating Hate: Far-right Exploitation of AI for Hateful Content, Propaganda, and Disinformation (2025)

• Analysing AI’s Role in Political Disinformation, Warfare, and Policy Responses in Europe and the US (2025)

• Supremacist Sisterhoods: Exploring Women's Roles in Far-Right Online Extremism (2024)

• The Impact of CCTV on the Criminal Justice Outcomes of Violence Against Women and Girls (2024)